cerulean_blue

joined 9 months ago
[–] cerulean_blue@lemmy.ml 30 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I jumped into Usenet as an experiment and, once it was setup, it was ok. Although it is definitely not simple to get started and it seems you are constantly having to pay for stuff, even to access the trackers, which don't even have all the content!

I decided I didn't download enough and what I wanted was too hard to find, so I went back to Torrents. Way simpler for my occasional use.

[–] cerulean_blue@lemmy.ml 14 points 5 months ago

The narcissism on so many levels is such an adorable aspect of ~~this~~ every generation

Same thing happened in : 90s with Goths, 80s with New Wave , 70s with gender fluid androgyny, 60s with hippies, 50s with rock and roll... 20s with flapper girls.

[–] cerulean_blue@lemmy.ml 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Thanks. I did check Trash guides before posting but it doesn't cover installation, much less Linux user naming and groups, unless I missed it.

[–] cerulean_blue@lemmy.ml 3 points 6 months ago

That makes sense. Thank you so much. That is a question that has caused me issues for a long time. Now I understand it.

 

Sorry if this is the wrong place, it's a Linux question but it's come about whilst trying to build my arr-Plex stack.

So, Linux (Debian) user accounts; What is best practice for running applications as their own UID? Why should I do that? and how can I avoid file permission errors.

I see advice such as "create a new system account called radar/sonarr/Plex". So I do that, and then find all my downloads are owned by qbittorrent user and it doesn't have permission to move them into my Plex library and Plex can't view them either.

All seems overcomplicated. Why can't I just run everything all with username 'Plex'?

 

I'm looking for a reliable source of theatre scripts for musicals and plays. Any specialist IRC channels or the like?

[–] cerulean_blue@lemmy.ml 4 points 6 months ago

Thanks, great reply.

I'm not willing to give up just yet. So I'll try a block account from a different provider and see how it fares.

[–] cerulean_blue@lemmy.ml 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

I'm just trying the scene out, but so far I'm put off by having to pay for both indexers and providers, and now I need multiple of both to get what I thought was basic content (a film about a boy wizard).

Maybe it's a different problem causing my downloads to not even start, but the help page suggests DMCA as likely cause.

 

I'm in my first month of Usenet. I own several popular BluRay Movies but thought I'd save time ripping them manually and instead see what I could get off Usenet (NZBGeek + Eweka) now that my niece is visiting and needs entertainment.

I noticed a number of popular titles are consistently difficult to obtain ("aborted, cannot be completed"), even when live within only a few days, or even hours.

I assume this is a very vigilant DMCA takedown bot. How commonplace is this? And why does it only apply to some titles and not others?

Is it worth continuing with Usenet? I thought paying for content would ensure a certain "quality" of experience. So far, I'm a bit disappointed.

[–] cerulean_blue@lemmy.ml 12 points 6 months ago (6 children)

Arghh, two conflicting replies. What do we do?!!

[–] cerulean_blue@lemmy.ml 28 points 6 months ago (8 children)

From my first hand experience when I visited last year, nearly everyone I spoke to had a hard time acknowledging there was anything wrong with what they saw as Russia reclaiming land that was rightfully theirs. There was often outright admiration for Putin for being brave enough to put the interest of his nation first and telling the West to go swivel.

No coincidence that India has similar feelings towards several of its own neighbours and parts of Kashmir are not too dissimilar to Crimea.

The reaction would be very different if China ever did the same in Taiwan though, because... reasons.

[–] cerulean_blue@lemmy.ml 37 points 6 months ago (19 children)

Friendly reminder: India is generally Pro-Russia.

[–] cerulean_blue@lemmy.ml 35 points 7 months ago

Read the full comment before replying you lemon

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